Forsaken Nature Artist Julius Kassovic | Odalisque

Odalisque

Fine Art Photography

Artist Statement

Since 2006, I have frequently waded into a polluted little urban creek near my home and sat on a shower stool, peering at its waters. Holding the camera almost at water level, I have found that light interacts with the creek’s currents, and reflections of skies and trees, in beautiful, even lurid or bizarre ways.

My photographs are tight compositions that use these reflections and refraction, not simply as mirrors, but as devices to explore this interplay. Leaves, having left their trees, get another chance at ephemeral glory. This leaf, like the Odalisques of Ingres, Matisse, Manet and Renoir, is alluringly bathed in light and little else.

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